Welcome to a supplemental Critical Care Reviews Newsletter, bringing you the major research studies presented and subsequently published at the 2015 ESICM Hot Topics Sessions over the past three days. There have been multiple studies presented, but only half have been published.

Of note, four of the speakers presenting during these sessions will be present at the Critical Care Reviews Meeting next January - Dr Paul Young, Dr Anthony Gordon, Prof Tim Walsh and Prof Danny McAuley. In addition, Dr John Holcomb, lead author of the PROPPR trial published earlier this year in JAMA, will discuss his study, while Profs Jean Louis Vincent and Luciano Gattinoni will be on hand to provide insight and opinion on these investigations. Dr Brian Burns, from Sydney HEMS, completes the speaker line up with the inaugural John Hinds Trauma Lecture.